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A minor
A minor is a minor scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key signature has no flats and no sharps.
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Aino Sibelius
Aino Sibelius (née Järnefelt; 10 August 1871 – 8 June 1969) was the wife of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
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Ainola
Ainola, meaning "Aino's place", was the home of the composer Jean Sibelius, his wife Aino and their family from the autumn of 1904 until 1972.
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Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Akseli Gallen-Kallela (26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic (illustration, below).
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Anne Sofie von Otter
Anne Sofie von Otter (born 9 May 1955) is a Swedish mezzo-soprano.
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Ballade (classical music)
A ballade (from French ballade,, and German Ballade,, both being words for "ballad"), in classical music since the late 18th century, refers to a setting of a literary ballad, a narrative poem, in the musical tradition of the, or to a one-movement instrumental piece with lyrical and dramatic narrative qualities reminiscent of such a song setting, especially a piano ballad.
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Bass clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family.
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Bass drum
A bass drum, or kick drum, is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch.
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Bassoon
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble.
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Brass instrument
A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.
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Breitkopf & Härtel
Breitkopf & Härtel is the world's oldest music publishing house.
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C major
C major (or the key of C) is a major scale based on C, with the pitches C, D, E, F, G, A, and B. C major is one of the most common key signatures used in western music.
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C-sharp major
C major (or the key of C) is a major scale based on sharp, consisting of the pitches C, sharp, sharp, sharp, sharp, sharp, and sharp.
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C-sharp minor
C minor is a minor scale based on sharp, with the pitches C, sharp, E, sharp, sharp, A, and B. Its key signature consists of four sharps.
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Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military leader and statesman.
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Cello
The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.
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Clarinet
The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.
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Cymbal
A cymbal is a common percussion instrument.
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Double bass
The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.
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En saga
En saga (English translation: A fairy tale or A saga) is a tone poem written by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in 1892.
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Erik W. Tawaststjerna
Erik Werner Tawaststjerna (10 October 1916 – 22 January 1993) was a Finnish musicologist who also worked as a pianist, pedagogue, and critic.
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Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni (1 April 1866 – 27 July 1924) (given names: Ferruccio Dante Michelangiolo Benvenuto) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and teacher.
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Field marshal (Finland)
In Finnish Defence Forces Field Marshal (Finnish: sotamarsalkka (lit. War Marshal), Swedish: fältmarskalk) is officially not an active military rank but an honorary rank that can be bestowed upon 'especially distinguished generals'.
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Finnish National Theatre
The Finnish National Theatre (Suomen Kansallisteatteri), established in 1872, is a theatre located in central Helsinki on the northern side of the Helsinki Central Railway Station Square.
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Flute
The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.
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Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (Liszt Ferencz, in modern usage Liszt Ferenc;Liszt's Hungarian passport spelt his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simply "c" in all words except surnames; this has led to Liszt's given name being rendered in modern Hungarian usage as "Ferenc". From 1859 to 1867 he was officially Franz Ritter von Liszt; he was created a Ritter (knight) by Emperor Francis Joseph I in 1859, but never used this title of nobility in public. The title was necessary to marry the Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein without her losing her privileges, but after the marriage fell through, Liszt transferred the title to his uncle Eduard in 1867. Eduard's son was Franz von Liszt. 22 October 181131 July 1886) was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary during the Romantic era.
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French horn
The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.
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Georg Schnéevoigt
Georg Lennart Schnéevoigt (8 November 1872 – 28 November 1947) was a Finnish conductor and cellist, born in Vyborg, Grand Duchy of Finland, which is now in Russia.
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Helsinki
Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.
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Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
The Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (Finnish: Helsingin kaupunginorkesteri, Swedish: Helsingfors stadsorkester) is a Finnish orchestra based in Helsinki.
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Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts.
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Jean Sibelius
Jean Sibelius, born Johan Julius Christian Sibelius (8 December 186520 September 1957), was a Finnish composer and violinist of the late Romantic and early-modern periods.
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Joensuu
Joensuu is a city and municipality in North Karelia in the province of Eastern Finland.
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Juvenilia
Juvenilia are literary, musical or artistic works produced by an author during their youth.
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Kalevi Aho
Kalevi Ensio Aho (born 9 March 1949) is a Finnish composer.
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Karelia Suite
Jean Sibelius's Karelia Suite, Op. 11, was written in 1893 for the Viipuri Students' Association.
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Kullervo
Kullervo is an ill-fated character in the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic.
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Kyösti Kallio
Kyösti Kallio (10 April 1873 – 19 December 1940) was the fourth President of Finland (1937–1940).
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Lahti Symphony Orchestra
The Lahti Symphony Orchestra (Sinfonia Lahti) is a Finnish orchestra, based in the city of Lahti.
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Lasse Pöysti
Lasse Erik Pöysti (born 24 January 1927) is a Finnish actor, director, theatre manager and writer.
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Lemminkäinen Suite
The Lemminkäinen Suite (also called the Four Legends, or Four Legends from the Kalevala), Op.
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Libretto
A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.
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Lohengrin (opera)
Lohengrin, WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850.
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Melodrama
A melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.
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Mitrofan Belyayev
Mitrofan Petrovich Belyayev (Митрофа́н Петро́вич Беля́ев; old style 10/22 February 1836, St. Petersburg22 December 1903/ 4 January 1904) was an Imperial Russian music publisher, outstanding philanthropist, and the owner of a large wood dealership enterprise in Russia.
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Oboe
Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind instruments.
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Opus number
In musical composition, the opus number is the "work number" that is assigned to a composition, or to a set of compositions, to indicate the chronological order of the composer's production.
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Oskar Merikanto
Oskar Merikanto (5 August 1868, Helsinki 17 February 1924) was a Finnish musician and composer.
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Osmo Vänskä
Osmo Antero Vänskä (born 28 February 1953) is a Finnish conductor, clarinetist and composer.
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Pehr Evind Svinhufvud
Pehr Evind Svinhufvud af Qvalstad (15 December 1861 – 29 February 1944) was the third President of Finland from 1931 to 1937.
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Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.
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Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche developed his philosophy during the late 19th century.
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Piccolo
The piccolo (Italian for "small", but named ottavino in Italy) is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.
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Pizzicato
Pizzicato (pizzicato, translated as pinched, and sometimes roughly as plucked) is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument.
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Program music
Program music or programme music is a type of art music that attempts to musically render an extra-musical narrative.
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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas").
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Romantic music
Romantic music is a period of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century.
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Snöfrid
Snöfrid, Op.
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Spring Song (Sibelius)
Spring Song (in Swedish, Vårsång) is a tone poem composed in 1894 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius.
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String section
The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family.
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Symphonic poem
A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape, or other (non-musical) source.
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Symphony No. 1 (Sibelius)
The Symphony No.
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Symphony No. 8 (Sibelius)
Jean Sibelius's Symphony No.
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Tableau vivant
A tableau vivant (often shortened to tableau, plural: tableaux vivants), French for 'living picture', is a static scene containing one or more actors or models.
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Tambourine
The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils".
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Tampere
Tampere (Swedish: Tammerfors) is a city in Pirkanmaa, southern Finland.
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Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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Triangle (musical instrument)
The triangle is an idiophone type of musical instrument in the percussion family.
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Tristan chord
The Tristan chord is a chord made up of the notes F, B, D, and G. More generally, it can be any chord that consists of these same intervals: augmented fourth, augmented sixth, and augmented ninth above a bass note.
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Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde, or Tristan and Isolda, or Tristran and Ysolt) is an opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg.
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Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Turku
Turku (Åbo) is a city on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Southwest Finland.
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University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki (Helsingin yliopisto, Helsingfors universitet, Universitas Helsingiensis, abbreviated UH) is a university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but was founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish Åbo) in 1640 as the Royal Academy of Åbo, at that time part of the Swedish Empire.
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Verismo (music)
In opera, verismo ("realism", from vero, meaning "true") was a post-Romantic operatic tradition associated with Italian composers such as Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordano, Francesco Cilea and Giacomo Puccini.
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Viktor Rydberg
Abraham Viktor Rydberg (18 December 1828 in Jönköping21 September 1895 in Djursholm) was a Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy, 1877–1895.
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Viola
The viola is a string instrument that is bowed or played with varying techniques.
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Violin
The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.
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Woodwind instrument
Woodwind instruments are a family of musical instruments within the more general category of wind instruments.
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